My Zazzle Stats for August 2016

Greetings!  Here are my zazzle stats for August 2016.

I spent most of the month playing in the crafts department. I created a number of geometric prints that I put on tissue paper and fabric. Abstract prints are probably the most difficult thing to tag and market so not the best use of my time but it was helpful learning how to use graphic editing software.  I also ended up with this.... so not a total loss.

Pretty Floral Geometric by MessyTown
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I spent the second half of the month working with flowers - lots of daisies which are really a spring and summer design style - so again not sure what I was thinking but I enjoyed doing it and made some really pretty designs. (If I do say so myself!)

Pretty Daisy Blossoms v2 by MessyTown
Find other Flowers Wrapping Paper at zazzle.com

OK, so enough with the shameless self promotion - let's talk stats. Zazzle recently made changes to how they display stats so it is hard to say for sure which product had the most views this month.

Since my last post I have sold 15 products across 7 orders. I am still seeing 1 daily view for every 200-250 products and making a sale for every 50 views.
My product count is around 1,550.  Lots of creating this month and lots of deleting.

My goals for September:
1. create 10 very special greeting cards
2. generate 20 linkovers per day
3. figure out a way to increase zRank.  Right now it is a 4 and I am invisible to search engines.

 But I am not invisible here!  Some of this blog has been indexed by google.  I will continue to look for ways to SEO this site.

Thanks again to the shopkeepers that come here and share their Zazzle finds and gems. I have added the ability to react to the posts here (found at the very bottom of the post)- so if you see something you like, love or makes you go wow - you can leave a reaction. It just takes a click.

Have a great September!

My Zazzle Stats for July 2016

Hi Everyone,  First of all I would like to thank all the Zazzle shopkeepers for sharing their designs with us here on Zazzle Life.  Thank you!

I plan to post periodic updates on my Zazzle experience and store. I have tried to track down stats online and I have found lots of products and heard from some Zazzle superstars but there is very little online (that I can find anyway) about how the "average" storekeeper does.

I opened my store back in 2013, but I did not publish my first product until May of 2016 - so I have been at it for a little less than 3 months. I am having a blast and probably spending a little too much time fiddling with the site.

I do not have a graphic design background and spend my work days up to my eyeballs  in numbers and spreadsheets so it is nice to have found a creative outlet.  I will be the first to admit that I have a lot to learn, but that too, is part of the fun.

As of today, I have 1,287 public products.  I have spent that last 2 weeks culling some of my earliest creations that need to be deleted or reworked. I have more work to do.

In the beginning, it was a matter of publishing as many products as possible - now I realize that approach was a mistake.

The beauty of Zazzle

I am ashamed to admit that I did not really understand Zazzle's value proposition when I started creating products.  I now understand it to be:
a) They offer unique designs that (often) cannot be found elsewhere and that are one of a kind.
b) They offer gifts that are personally meaningful in some way. That could mean a quote a monogram, a special date, a personal picture etc.

So armed with that knowledge I need to recreate hundreds of products.

July Stats

Most viewed product this month:

Flying hearts and dragonflies print by MessyTown
Find more Dragonflies Shower Curtains at Zazzle

I love this print and I have built a large collection with it.

Views: I find that I am receiving 1 daily view for each 200-250 products. I don't know if that is good or bad but hope to improve.

Sales: July was a great month for sales, thanks in part to the massive Christmas in July promotion. I expect things to slow down but I am delighted that I have sales.  It can be disheartening to go days, and weeks on end without visitors or sales.  

I sold 6 products - all small ticket items.  Three of those products were 3rd party referrals, so thank you to the promoters.

Conversion:  If my math is correct, every 25 views resulted in a sale.  That is fantastic and I would be nice if I could sustain that ratio.  I expect 1:75 to 1:100 views to convert to a sale.

Well thanks again.  I will be back next month with the latest stats. I want to talk about my store name (which is awful) and all the other wonderful things I am learning along the way.